Lime Bay
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Saltwater River, and at latitude 42.9562 (S), longitude 147.7051 (E). Its location (to the nearest 10 km) is shown on the map below. This location lies within the Bruny bioregion.

Species recorded from this locality

The list below shows the species, listed in taxonomic order, for which there are records from this locality in the database underlying these web-pages. Doubtful records have been excluded. Sources are as follows: SJG - Simon Grove records; TMAG - Tasmanian Museum accesssions; QVMAG - Queen Victoria Museum accessions; MHR - Margaret Richmond records; TMNA - Tasmanian Marine Naturalists Association records; OTHER - other sources.

Sypharochiton pelliserpentis (snakeskin chiton) (SJG, TMNA)

Ischnochiton australis (southern chiton) (SJG)

Barbatia pistachia (hairy ark-shell) (SJG)

Glycymeris striatularis (common dog-cockle) (OTHER)

Austromytilus rostratus (common beaked-mussel) (TMNA)

Brachidontes erosus (eroded beaked-mussel) (SJG, TMNA)

Limnoperna inconstans (variable mussel) (SJG)

Musculus impactus (nesting mussel) (SJG)

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (blue mussel) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster) (SJG, TMNA)

Ostrea angasi (common mud-oyster) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Equichlamys bifrons (queen scallop) (SJG)

Electroma georgiana (common butterfly-shell) (SJG)

Hiatella australis (southern crypt-dweller) (SJG)

Laternula rostrata (Tasmanian lantern-shell) (SJG)

Periploma angasi (Angas’ lantern-shell) (MHR)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Lasaea australis (southern lasaea) (SJG)

Divalucina cumingi (v-marked lucine) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Wallucina assimilis (common mud-lucine) (SJG)

Spisula trigonella (triangular trough-shell) (SJG)

Anapella cycladea (smooth-toothed triangle) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Paphies cuneata (wedge-shaped wedge-shell) (SJG)

Paphies elongata (elongate wedge-shell) (MHR, TMNA)

Paphies erycinaea (eryx wedge-shell) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Gari livida (purple sunset-shell) (MHR)

Soletellina biradiata (double-rayed sunset-shell) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Pseudarcopagia botanica (Botany Bay tellin) (SJG)

Macomona deltoidalis (triangular tellin) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Circomphalus disjecta (wedding-cake venus) (TMNA)

Placamen placidum (placid venus) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Tawera gallinula (feathered venus) (SJG, MHR)

Dosinia caerulea (blue-tinged dosinia) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Eumarcia fumigata (smoky venus) (SJG, MHR, OTHER)

Irus carditoides (cardita-like boring-venus) (SJG)

Irus griseus (Tasmanian boring-venus) (SJG, TMNA)

Katelysia rhytiphora (ridged venus) (SJG, TMNA)

Katelysia scalarina (stepped venus) (SJG, MHR)

Venerupis anomala (little bean venus) (SJG)

Sepia apama (giant cuttlefish) (SJG)

Notoacmea flammea (flame limpet) (SJG)

Patelloida alticostata (tall-ribbed limpet) (SJG, TMNA)

Patelloida insignis (Maltese-cross limpet) (TMNA)

Cellana solida (orange-edged limpet) (SJG)

Phasianella australis (painted-lady pheasant-shell) (SJG, MHR)

Hemitoma subemarginata (giant notch-limpet) (TMNA)

Montfortula rugosa (rough notch-limpet) (SJG)

Scutus antipodes (common elephant-snail) (SJG)

Chlorodiloma odontis (chequered top-shell) (SJG)

Austrocochlea brevis (short top-shell) (SJG)

Austrocochlea constricta (ribbed top-shell) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Diloma concamerata (tessellated top-shell) (SJG, TMNA)

Clanculus plebejus (people’s top-shell) (SJG)

Phasianotrochus irisodontes (rainbow kelp-shell) (SJG)

Astralium aureum (golden star-shell) (SJG, TMNA)

Turbo undulatus (wavy turban) (SJG)

Nerita melanotragus (eastern black nerite) (SJG)

Zeacumantus diemenensis (common mud-creeper) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Cacozeliana granaria (grainy creeper) (TMNA)

Diala suturalis (sutured diala) (SJG)

Alaba monile (spotted alaba) (SJG, TMNA)

Alaba translucida (translucent alaba) (SJG)

Maoricolpus roseus (New Zealand screw-shell) (MHR)

Bembicium auratum (estuarine conniwink) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Bembicium melanostoma (black-mouth conniwink) (SJG, MHR)

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (SJG, TMNA)

Afrolittorina praetermissa (checkered australwink) (SJG)

Austrolittorina unifasciata (banded australwink) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Polinices conica (conical sand-snail) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Cryptassiminea tasmanica (Tasmanian assiminea) (SJG)

Cabestana spengleri (Spengler’s rock-whelk) (SJG)

Sassia verrucosa (warted rock-whelk) (SJG)

Cominella lineolata (lined whelk) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Penion mandarinus (mandarin whelk) (SJG)

Mitrella leucostoma (white-mouthed dove-shell) (SJG)

Pleuroploca australasia (Australian tulip-shell) (SJG, MHR)

Nassarius nigellus (little dog-whelk) (SJG)

Nassarius pauperatus (impoverished dog-whelk) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Nassarius pyrrhus (pyrrhus dog-whelk) (SJG)

Guraleus pictus (painted false-turrid) (SJG)

Bedeva paivae (mussel drill) (SJG, TMNA)

Haustrum vinosum (purple-mouthed rock-shell) (SJG, TMNA)

Dicathais orbita (common cartrut-shell) (SJG, MHR)

Turbonilla acicularis (needle-like pyramid-shell) (SJG)

Turbonilla mariae (Maria’s pyramid-shell) (SJG)

Philine angasi (Angas’ bubble-shell) (SJG, MHR)

Retusa atkinsoni (Atkinson’s canoe-shell) (SJG)

Salinator fragilis (fragile air-breather) (SJG, MHR)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common siphon-shell) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Marinula xanthostoma (delicate air-breather) (SJG)

Onchidella nigricans (limpet-like sea-slug) (SJG)




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Information and disclaimer: The web-pages on this web-site are generated from an underlying database. These can be cited as Grove, S.J. (2011). A Guide to the Seashells and other Marine Molluscs of Tasmania web-site and database respectively. Whilst great care is taken to accurately identify specimens featured on this web-site and to allocate all records to the most appropriate taxonomic names available, no guarantee is offered that all identifications are accurate, nor that the taxa to which they have been allocated are currently valid. Commentaries on habitat, distribution and biology are also subject to change as new information comes to light. If you have any enquiries, or any comments that will help improve the content or appearance of these pages, then please follow the links from 'contact' on the left-hand panel.

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